Isaac Asimov quotes - page 5

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. (Isaac Asimov)
If there is a misuse of power, it is on her part. My crime is that I have never labored to make myself popular - I admit that much - and I have paid too little attention to fools who are old enough to be senile but young enough to have power. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. View quote
Isaac Asimov
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea. View quote
Isaac Asimov
If the love of money is the root of all evil, the need of money is most certainly the root of all despair. View quote
Isaac Asimov
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." View quote
Isaac Asimov
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing - to be clear. View quote
Isaac Asimov
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage. (Isaac Asimov)
People think of education as something they can finish. View quote
Isaac Asimov
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. View quote
Isaac Asimov
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch. View quote
Isaac Asimov
All evil is good become cancerous. View quote
Isaac Asimov
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven. View quote
Isaac Asimov
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit. View quote
Isaac Asimov
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. (Isaac Asimov)
You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter. View quote
Isaac Asimov
It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! View quote
Isaac Asimov
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. View quote
Isaac Asimov